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ArticleNature medicine2020

The effect of LRRK2 loss-of-function variants in humans.

Nicola Whiffin, Irina M Armean, Aaron Kleinman, Jamie L Marshall, Eric V Minikel, Julia K Goodrich, Nicholas M Quaife, Joanne B Cole, Qingbo Wang, Konrad J Karczewski and 30 more

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Article in Nature medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 73 papers.

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73citing papers in PubMed
7.2field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

73 citing papers in PubMed, 109 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

40 authors at 20 institutions in 18 countries.

Nicola Whiffin *National Heart & Lung Institute and MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK. n.whiffin@imperial.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1554-6594
Irina M Armean *Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1043-4756
Aaron Kleinman *23andMe, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA.
Jamie L MarshallProgram in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2364-391X
Eric V MinikelProgram in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Julia K GoodrichProgram in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Nicholas M QuaifeNational Heart & Lung Institute and MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2755-2086
Joanne B ColeProgram in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9520-2788
Qingbo WangProgram in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9110-5830
Konrad J KarczewskiProgram in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2878-4671
Beryl B CummingsProgram in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6346-1646
Laurent FrancioliProgram in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3039-8895
Kristen LaricchiaProgram in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Anna Guan23andMe, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA.
Babak Alipanahi23andMe, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8216-7178
Peter Morrison23andMe, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA.
Marco A S BaptistaMichael J. Fox Foundation, New York, NY, USA.
Kalpana M MerchantMichael J. Fox Foundation, New York, NY, USA.
Genome Aggregation Database Production Team
Genome Aggregation Database Consortium
James S WareNational Heart & Lung Institute and MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6110-5880
Aki S HavulinnaNational Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4787-8959
Bozenna IliadouDepartment of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Jung-Jin LeeDepartment of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Girish N NadkarniThe Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
Cole WhitemanDepartment of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
23andMe Research Team
Mark DalyProgram in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Tõnu EskoProgram in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1982-6569
Christina HultmanDepartment of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Ruth J F LoosThe Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8532-5087
Lili MilaniEstonian Genome Center, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5323-3102
Aarno PalotieAnalytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Carlos PatoDepartment of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Michele PatoDepartment of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Danish SaleheenDepartment of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6193-020X
Patrick F SullivanDepartment of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Jessica AlföldiProgram in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9713-6200
Paul Cannon23andMe, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA.
Daniel G MacArthurProgram in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA. d.macarthur@garvan.org.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5771-2290
Broad Institute · US23andMe (United States) · USState University of New York · USHarvard University · USHelsinki University Hospital · FILund University · SEUniversity of Eastern Finland · FIUniversity of Helsinki · FIMichael J. Fox Foundation · USBoston University · USBrigham and Women's Hospital · USImperial College Healthcare NHS Trust · GBNational University of Singapore · SGTampere University · FIUniversity of Leicester · GBUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USCedars-Sinai Medical Center · USCleveland Clinic · USColorado School of Public Health · USColumbia University Irving Medical Center · US

Funding

African Ancestry Genomic Psychiatry CohortR01MH104964 · NIMH · SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER · PI BIGDELI, TIM BERNARD, FANOUS, AYMAN H · 2015 to 2024
$16.7M
Genomic Psychiatry CohortR01MH085548 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI PATO, CARLOS N, PATO, MICHELE T · 2008 to 2012
$16.3M
Computational resources for genomic interpretation of type 2 diabetesU54DK105566 · NIDDK · BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. · PI MACARTHUR, DANIEL G, NEALE, BENJAMIN MICHAEL · 2014 to 2017
$8.6M
Latino Ancestry Genomic Psychiatry CohortR01MH123451 · NIMH · SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER · PI BIGDELI, TIM BERNARD, FANOUS, AYMAN H · 2020 to 2025
$7.1M
Annotation and interpretation of loss-of-function polymorphisms in human genomesR01GM104371 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI MACARTHUR, DANIEL G · 2013 to 2016
$1.3M
The Human Knockout Project: systematic discovery of loss-of-function variants in humansF32GM115208 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI KARCZEWSKI, KONRAD · 2015 to 2016
$109k
British Heart Foundation CS/14/2/30841British Heart Foundation RG/18/10/33842Department of HealthMedical Research Council MC_PC_17228Medical Research Council MC_QA137853Medical Research Council MC_UP_1102/20NIDDK NIH HHS U54 DK105566NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM115208NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM104371NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH085548NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH104964NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH123451Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 107469/Z/15/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human genetic variants predicted to cause loss-of-function of protein-coding genes (pLoF variants) provide natural in vivo models of human gene inactivation and can be valuable indicators of gene function and the potential toxicity of therapeutic inhibitors targeting these genes

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AdultAgedAged, 80 and overBiological Specimen BanksCell LineEmbryonic Stem CellsFemaleGain of Function MutationHeterozygoteHumansLeucine-Rich Repeat Serine-Threonine Protein Kinase-2LongevityLoss of Function MutationLymphocytesMaleMiddle AgedLeucine-Rich Repeat Serine-Threonine Protein Kinase-2LRRK2 protein, human

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